The Cloverfield Paradox

"The future unleashed every thing."

2018 1h 42m EN

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5.6

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Synopsis

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Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.

“The future unleashed every thing.”

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Cast

Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Ava Hamilton
Daniel Brühl
Schmidt
Chris O'Dowd
Mundy
David Oyelowo
Kiel
John Ortiz
Monk Acosta
Elizabeth Debicki
Mina Jensen
Zhang Ziyi
Tam
Aksel Hennie
Volkov

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Julius Onah
Writers: Jonathan Gesinski, Oren Uziel, Doug Jung
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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Released 8 years ago.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Julius Onah, shot by Dan Mindel. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Bear McCreary. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Alan Baumgarten shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Daniel Brühl and Chris O'Dowd carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "The future unleashed every thing.".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt2548396 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Julius Onah directs. Dan Mindel behind the camera. Bear McCreary scores. Alan Baumgarten cuts. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released 8 years ago.
2Directed by Julius Onah, shot by Dan Mindel. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by Bear McCreary. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Alan Baumgarten shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Daniel Brühl and Chris O'Dowd carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "The future unleashed every thing.".
7IMDB entry: tt2548396 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Classified under 9 themes, including "experiment", "disorientation", "alien", "space".

The technical file

Cinematography: Dan Mindel
Original score: Bear McCreary
Editing: Alan Baumgarten
Production design: Doug J. Meerdink
Costume design: Colleen Atwood
Makeup / hair: Bill Corso
VFX supervisor: Jason H. Snell
Sound: Joseph E. Colmenero
Stunt coordinator: Mike Massa
Runtime: 102 min · 1h 42m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $45,000,000
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

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Walruse2018-02-05
★ 2/10
Putting Roy on a space station might sound like a bad idea, but making this movie was even worse. The Cloverfield Paradox is a rushed copy/paste job with not enough time to glue the events together. A bit of Alien here, a splash of The Philadelphia Experiment there and a handful of other classic sci-fi flicks sprinkled on top. Oh, that bit in Evil Dead was funny, lets have some of that too! Wrap it up with a title that attracts the horror people too and it is time to cash in the mockbuster it is. Netflix. Don't go down this road. Let it end here.
tmdb152146182018-02-06
★ 6/10
It's fine sci-fi schlock. There's a likable cast, a few tense body horror moments, and an interesting idea with a disembodied arm. The mostly generic hodge podge of a script doesn't live up to the potential of the rest of the elements. However, the most glaring flaw is the B-plot, Earth scenes added thanks to test audiences, which doesn't have any bearing on the principal story that happens in space. Thanks, test audiences.
ConradM2018-04-04
★ 4/10
Like Prometheus in 2012, this was a serious disappointment. The characters' decisions are bizarre, motivations are unexplained. The science is bogus. The horror elements are not horrifying. The whole thing lacks style, originality, humour or any kind of spark. The movie fails to establish any meaningful personality for the crew members, so the only question becomes which one will die next. OK, there's one potentially interesting idea: have each character speak in their own national language (except the Brazilian guy: not sure why he doesn't get to?!) but the movie fails to take it anywhere. Similar but much better films include: Europa Report, Event Horizon, Solaris (original and remake), Cargo, 2010.